Smiling Through the Cultural Catastrophe: Toward the Revival of Higher EducationYale University Press, 1 Eki 2008 - 286 sayfa Although the essential books of Western civilization are no longer central in our courses or in our thoughts, they retain their ability to energize us intellectually, says Jeffrey Hart in this powerful book. He now presents a guide to some of these literary works, tracing the main currents of Western culture for all who wish to understand the roots of their civilization and the basis for its achievements. Hart focuses on the productive tension between the classical and biblical strains in our civilization, between a life based on cognition and one based on faith and piety. He begins with the Iliad and Exodus, linking Achilles and Moses as Bronze Age heroic figures. Closely analysing texts and illuminating them in unexpected ways, he moves on to Socrates and Jesus, who internalized the heroic, continues with Paul and Augustine and their Christian synthesis, addresses Dante, Shakespeare's Hamlet, Moliere, and Voltaire, and concludes with the novel as represented by Crime and Punishment and The Great Gatsby. Hart maintains that the dialectical tensions suggested by this survey account for the restlessness and singular achievements of the West and that the essential books can provide the substance and energy currently missed by both students and educated readers. |
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... example , a distinguished historian of science , has provided a persuasive demon- stration of why this disciplined investigation of the world developed in the West and nowhere else.3 Grant argues that Islam , which very early exhibited ...
... example , a distinguished historian of science , has provided a persuasive demon- stration of why this disciplined investigation of the world developed in the West and nowhere else.3 Grant argues that Islam , which very early exhibited ...
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... example , the translator Hunyuan ibn Ishaq ( died ca. A.D. 873 ) translated three dialogues of Plato , four works of Aristotle , fifteen Hippocratic medical texts , and ninety works of the Greek physician Galen . Living as he did in the ...
... example , the translator Hunyuan ibn Ishaq ( died ca. A.D. 873 ) translated three dialogues of Plato , four works of Aristotle , fifteen Hippocratic medical texts , and ninety works of the Greek physician Galen . Living as he did in the ...
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... example , geometry— an expression of the underlying order of the cosmos . Eric Voegelin's brief sentences on the death of Plato amount almost to a philosophical poem : " Plato died at the age of eighty - one . On the evening of his ...
... example , geometry— an expression of the underlying order of the cosmos . Eric Voegelin's brief sentences on the death of Plato amount almost to a philosophical poem : " Plato died at the age of eighty - one . On the evening of his ...
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... examples, eloquence, and musical ability. Such a hero is both eloquent in speech and heroic in action. All the great figures in Homer strive for areté, even in the athletic games, which are more than games in the Homeric epic. Human ...
... examples, eloquence, and musical ability. Such a hero is both eloquent in speech and heroic in action. All the great figures in Homer strive for areté, even in the athletic games, which are more than games in the Homeric epic. Human ...
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... example , very reluctantly gave up the hypothesis of the eternity of matter , also a conviction of the ancient Greeks . But in 1965 Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson of the Bell Laboratories detected and measured diffuse radiation from the ...
... example , very reluctantly gave up the hypothesis of the eternity of matter , also a conviction of the ancient Greeks . But in 1965 Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson of the Bell Laboratories detected and measured diffuse radiation from the ...
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